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When at last Colette abandoned Willy, she went on the stage. Faded photographs, says Wescott, still exist of Colette as a vaudeville queen-"a black cat in woolly tights with inked-on whiskers," a seductive charmer making a grand entry "with what appears to be a real peacock tail." Colette left the stage to marry a distinguished politician and journalist, Henri de Jouvenel. They were divorced, and in 1935 she married her present husband, a journalist named Maurice Goudeket. But she never stopped writing. By 1919, Marcel Proust himself was shedding tears over her love story of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Animal Kingdom | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

This term's top 15 are: Ralph M. K. Barford, James R. Bell Jr., Peter Danes, Charles W. Gardiner, Gordon G. Hughes, Norman J. Keesal, John E. Lindsay, Robert J. Meyer, James L. Montgomery, Alvin W. Peacock, Henry B. Perry, Jean R. Roche, Arthur F. Thompson, Thomas J. Troup, and Richard B. Uhie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baker Awards Go to 15 Bush School Men | 10/19/1951 | See Source »

...glamour and the fame of the stage, Miss Rand is not completely happy. "There is a desire in the artist," she says, "to create and to have her work seen." Because of commercial demands, Miss Rand has been forced to abandon such things as Griffith's "White Peacock," one of the four Roman musical sketches which she has always wanted to dance...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: "Art Is My Life," Says Sally Rand | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

...they call me a witch?" asks the beautiful and bewildered accused in Playwright Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning. "I live alone . . . speak French to my poodle [and] have a peacock which, on Sundays dines with me indoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Not for Burning | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Yale's boating is; Michael Brewer, bow; Peter Peacock, two; Dick O'Connor, three; Plato Skouras, four; Don Knode, five; Stuart Griffing, six; Bob Jones, seven; Gates, stroke; and Byam Stevens, coxswain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Seeks Vengeance Against Eli Tomorrow | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

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